Pareja v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff was allegedly injured when the bus on which she was a passenger hit a pillar on White Plains Road. At trial, the bus driver testified that he swerved to avoid an oncoming car that cut in front him.
There is no evidence that the offensive summation remarks of defense counsel cited by plaintiff improperly affected the verdict (cf. Kohlmann v City of New York, 8 AD2d 598 [1959]). Moreover, these remarks were brief and, after a 12-day trial with numerous witnesses, were unlikely to have affected the outcome. We nonetheless observe that the remarks of defense counsel were uncalled for.…
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